The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-12

chief The preachers pulpit was
stump on which board had been
fixed to stand on, the audience assem-
bling under the trees. The paper con
tanned some very interesting reminis-
cences.
The chairman announced that a
paper had been written by DR.. Wet
more on recolIections Of the revival at
Hilo in 1897 with DR.. Wetmore's own
share in the work left out The writer
having gone away by the Mariposa on
Saturday. the paper was read by Rev.
Mr.. Oleson. The paper commenced
with home sketch Of the doctors
birthplace in America. The narrative |
was written in elegant style to which
Mr. Blossoms elocution did full justice.
1t was remarked among other things !
that had the American Board of Com
missioners Of Foreign Missions defer
red the withdrawal Of their operations
on these islands twenty years, the re-
suit would have been more salutary,
and that II would be well for the
Board to re-enter upon the field which
they had prematurely relinquished, If
only to bring the status of the native
churches up to the condition at which
they had left them.
The chairman, in introducing Dr.
Lowell Smith, referred to the fact
which he noted as somewhat remark
able, that DR. Smith, whose career in
the mission commenced fiftyfour years
ago, was still-able to prepare a paper
. with his own hand and was present to
read it for himself The venerable
: gentleman stepped forward and declin-
! ing the chair offered him, stood erect,
and for about half an hour sketched in
= clear voice, in which the infirmity Of
many years was barely perceptible, a
thrilling narrative of pioneer labors on
the island Of Molokai and later on
Oahu, at EVA and Honolulu. There
ran through the story vein of quaint
humor, particularly when relating his
! first essay at house.building at Eva,
the stones of an old heiau being turned
i to account with mortar made of Eva
o mud, the door and window castings
1 being of his own carpentry, which, he
o had concluded at the time, might be
. more satisfactory than doors and win
o dows Of mats. His first sermon for
o lawaiians had been written, revised
and corrected by Mr.. Hitchcock, re
e written and re-revised and re-correctec
N and again written, until at length hi:
u effort received the imprimatur Of Mr.
a Hitchcock, who then informed him
n that he was to preach it on the follow
Sc ing Sunday. In answer to enquiries
a. among his hearers he was gratifed t
q learn that they had understood the dis
d. course and could repeat the text. Or
re the ord January, 1896, church wa
G. organized at Eva and about the SAM
81 time, having ascertained that Eva mu'
% was good material for adobe, church
O. was built OF that material, the sol
In being mixed with manienie grass. o.
OF his removal to Honolulu, he was place.
en- in charge of a school on the ground
ny of Kawaiahao church. Meetings wer
IS. also held on Sundays. To these labor
'rs were added the teaching of a singin
'p- school, In his first years schoC
RS register we're listed 3oa pupils, boy
nd and girls in about equal number:
AT his school examinations, high chic
by and persons of prominence among 70
ert eigners attended and certified to tn
ISIS satisfactory results of the schoolmaster
lily abors After several years in the'
9TH duties his services were transferred
ad Kaumakapili Church.
ed Rev. S. e. Bishop gave some of h
me personal "reminiscences Of the arrival
'ell the reinforcement Of 81. His in
Ids pressions on first meeting the F" MAJ
of Frazier" band were recalled with yivi
CHI ness, and fully described. Among h
other recoIlections not the least wa
.en that he had been considerab
bly, mashed" by the pretty faces Of Il
his lady members of the party. The cor
emit pany contributed the largest accessit
the of white people, up to that time,
red the population. Mr.. Bishops pap
,an was replete with kindly and interestil
ri. personal illusions to the missiona
Of families, the names cited being nc
40, we'll known among the principal re
rise dents OF Honolulu and other parts
,ors the Kingdom. A fact relating to 3
in leading commercial industry of !
cry present and the absence OF 1t in I
early days, was that the sugar al
the molasses then used were West Inc
The products, Within year OF the arrival
the the Seventh reinforcement" y that Of !;
the four hundred new members were add
-ch, to his fathers congregation at Ev
tive and were admitted on a single day
lble congregation at that service NUMBER
the altogether about six thousand people.
ON, For reasons which we're explained,
With slight change was made in the p
S of lgramme at the conclusion of A
line Bishops address.
ing, Rev. DR. Smith, Of Koloa, Kau
and gave an oral account Of his arrival